Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than a hundred representatives of the groups attending the meeting will form the nucleus of Thursday's demonstration, which will express opposition to any intervention drive and specifically the current Harvard movement...
...confidence which you express in the ability of this institution to administer Dumbarton Oaks in accordance with the purposes for which it was designed is deeply appreciated," the letter said...
...meaning today. For one thing, its stories are mostly mythological or fanciful, handled as though in a complete vacuum, with not the slightest trace of anything to link them with real life. The music, too, is defective in that it is addicted to effect and picturization rather than spontaneous expression. But probably what makes old-style ballet so sterile is the fact that this is primarily not a dancing age: that is, it is an age in which one dances not to express emotion, but for recreation. The motions of the human limb per se do not have aesthetic meaning...
...ballet devotee may tell you that the business of ballet dancing is to express ecstasy. Perhaps so. But somehow, in this "undancing" day and age, ecstasy if it is to be expressed at all must be expressed differently, through notes or words. Creative dancing is remote from our way of life, as remote as bodily nudity. In Greek days, choral dancing was an integral part of the religious life of the people, and thus it became a perfectly natural medium of artistic expression. I doubt whether the audiences at the Radio City Music-Hall today really enjoy the short ballet...
Please let me express to the editors of your Foreign News department my appreciation for the admirable expression contained in the following sentence: "Therefore, some of the sentences of Vichy have had a gutteral German hardness about them [TIME, Oct. 28]." I assume, of course, that this was intentional coining of a new word which certainly hits the nail on the head...